Bangladesh Family Planning Program evolved through a series of development phases that took place during the last 52 years. Family planning efforts in this country began in the early 1950s with voluntary efforts of a group of social and medical workers. Categorical FP program emerged during 1965-95 with the objective to control population growth as a strategy of economic development. The Family Planning Program in Bangladesh has undergone a number of transitional phases. The phases may be illustrated as follows:
Phase I : 1953-59: Voluntary and semi-government efforts
Phase ll : 1960-64: Government sponsored clinic-based Family Planning Program
Phase lll : 1965-70: Field-based Government Family Planning Program
Phase IV : 1972-74: Integrated Health & Family Planning Program
Phase V : 1975-80: Maternal and Child Health (MCH)-based Multi-sectoral Program
Phase VI : 1980-85: Functionally Integrated Program
Phase VII: 1985-90: Intensive Family Planning Program
Phase VIII: 1990-95: Reduction of rapid growth of population through intensive service delivery and community participation
Phase IX: 1998-2003: Health and Population Sector Program (HPSP)
Phase X: 2003-2011: Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Program (HNPSP)
Phase XI: 2011-2016: Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Development Program (HNPSDP)
Phase XII: 2017-2022: 4th Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Program (HNPSP)
2 years after the birth of the Bandarban Hill District (On 18th April 1981) consist of seven upazilas including the geographical and administrative boundaries of the Lama subdivision of that time, Mr. Md. Abdul Gofran joined this district as the first Deputy Director, family planning in 12/11/1983. Basically since then administrative proceedings of the family planning program started in Bandarban Hill District.
At present By implementing family planning, mother and child health, availability of nutrition services and ensuring optimum utilization of services, the National Development Plan, Vision-2021, Fourth Sector Program HPNSP (2017-222) and implementation of SDG (2030) and to make overall development of population and nutrition subheads, the union family Rikalpana Committee, satellite clinic committee and reconstitutes the Union Family Welfare Center Steering Committee and has been active.
Providing 24/7 hours of normal delivery services, providing services through effective satellite clinic, ANC, PNC, safe delivery, newborn services in the mother and child welfare center, reproduction of children through adolescent reproduction and nutrition health care, reduction in population growth, prevention of disease, death rate Decrease, increase nutrition, non-communicable disease, control of emergine-referential diseases and to acheive zero quota The activities are continuing.
Above all, our main goal of reaching public health services among the public. This is our commitment.
Planning and Implementation: Cabinet Division, A2I, BCC, DoICT and BASIS